James Cameron's Sequel to "AVATAR" - Part 1

[terry78]

If they all look like Arnold, even the women, this thing already has my money.

 

[TheNextNolan22]

They better. Arnold or bust!

 

[:eek:]

James Cameron Talks Avatar Sequels, Compares Them to The Godfather

by Spencer Perry
December 16, 2013


"Think of it as a family saga like 'The Godfather'"

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20th Century Fox and Lightstorm Entertainment announced yesterday that James Cameron will shoot all three of his upcoming Avatar sequels in New Zealand, and now in an interview with The Associated Press, Cameron elaborated on some details regarding the films.
"It's going to be a lot of new imagery and a lot of new environments and creatures across Pandora. We're blowing it out all over the place. At first I thought I was going to take it onto other worlds as well, in the same solar system, but it turned out not to be necessary. I mean the Pandora that we have imagined will be a fantasy land that is going to occupy people for decades to come, the way I see it."
Cameron also commented on the often reported fact that second film will deal with the underwater life on Pandora, saying:

"There's a fair bit of underwater stuff. It's been inaccurately said that the second film takes place underwater. That's not true. There are underwater scenes and surface-water scenes having to do with indigenous ocean cultures that are distributed across the three films."

While the first film in the series focused mostly on Sam Worthington's Jake Sully, Cameron says the sequels will expand their focus to Jake's "family" on Pandora.

"It was very Jake-centric. His story seen through his eyes. We spread it around quite a bit more as we go forward. It's really the story of his family, the family that he creates on Pandora. His extended family. So think of it as a family saga like 'The Godfather.'"
The release of the first sequel will be in December 2016, with the second to follow in December 2017, and the third a year later. Production is expected to begin next year with Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldana and Stephen Lang all returning in their respective roles.
Avatar 2, 3, and 4 will be produced by Cameron and Jon Landau through their Lightstorm Entertainment banner. Writers Josh Friedman (War of the Worlds), Rick Jaffa & Amanda Silver (Rise of the Planets of the Apes) and Shane Salerno (Savages) are currently penning the individual sequels.

 

[Loki882]

I wonder how they'll bring Stephen Lang and Sigourney Weaver back? I can think of a few different possible scenarios and it will be interesting to see what one they go with.

 

[jmc]

3 films back to back. Yikes.

 

[Dr. Evil]

I wonder how they'll bring Stephen Lang and Sigourney Weaver back? I can think of a few different possible scenarios and it will be interesting to see what one they go with.

The plan is to bring Lang back.

And I would love it if Arnold was in the film as a king of a Pandoran Species who's main language is English with Austrian accents.

 

[dude stannis]

James Cameron doing an epic Sci-Fi family saga is bliss, no matter how much I disliked the first one.

I need a scene of Jake Sully baptising his son, while Schwarzenegger goes around assassinating Quaritch's mercs.

 

[Mrs. Sawyer]

Can't Wait!

 

[The Shape]

I wonder how they'll bring Stephen Lang and Sigourney Weaver back? I can think of a few different possible scenarios and it will be interesting to see what one they go with.

I imagine there will be some flashbacks. Secrets from the past are almost always revealed in a saga like this. But I do think they'll all somehow return in the present. Can't wait to see how.

 

[terry78]

Ahnold-Na'vi: "Ya don't know za power of za trees!"

 

[Midnyte_Sun]

I could see him being the CEO of RDA. As for Quaritch, maybe he will return in some sort of flashback. Or of course, he somehow survives those arrows and rebuilds his body using RDA tech. Who knows what the possibilities are, I just can't wait until they are all out so I can see them.

 

[Bruce Malone]

3 films back to back. Yikes.

They're doing it to save money no doubt but I feel like the "trilogy" is really going to be just one big bloated movie essentially.

You should never bet against cameron but I wonder if the public's enthusiasm for avatar is going to last past the first sequel?

 

[DA_Champion]

I read in an article that each of the three films will cost 400 million dollars plus, is this true?

 

[DA_Champion]

Shane Salerno, who is penning either Avatar 3 or Avatar 4, is the writer behind Alien vs Predator Requiem. I'm not sure why he's introduced as the writer of Savages, when he's penned a masterpiece like AvP: Requiem.

 

[Bruce Malone]

I read in an article that each of the three films will cost 400 million dollars plus, is this true?

The whole production (3 films) is likely $400m, maybe a bit more? Filming movies back to back (to back) saves a lot on production costs, since it becomes just one big production essentially.

The whole LOTR trilogy was able to cost under 300m doing so.

Not to mention the technology had to be developed for the original Avatar, so those costs are now lowered since the tech already exists to an extent.

 

[Loki882]

People said that Titanic would bomb and that it would kill James Cameron's career, then it became the highest-grossing movie of all time and won a **** ton of awards. People didn't learn their lesson and predicted that Avatar would also bomb and kill Cameron's career, and then it was critically successful and became the highest-grossing movie of all time, breaking Cameron's own record. I've learned NEVER to bet against James Cameron, the man is really good at making movies that make money. Also, the visuals in Avatar are fantastic and they've got good actors. All that Cameron has to do is to come up with a more compelling story, which I think might happen now that he's got all of the set up out of the way.

 

[Mrs. Sawyer]

He will have a more compelling story. We're talking about a guy who's made some of the greatest sequels of all time.

 

[Teelie]

All three are a combined $415 million although this being Cameron I'm not surprised people mistook him spending that kind of money per movie.

 

[matrix_ghost]

All three are a combined $415 million although this being Cameron I'm not surprised people mistook him spending that kind of money per movie.

It'll increase.
It happened with Terminator Judgement Day
It happend with Titanic
It happend with Avatar.

The budget will increase. I don't think it'll be 400 million PER movie , but overal i wouldn't be surprised if the total cost for all three movies exceeds 500 million.

 

[dark_b]

i agree. and Cameron knows this. he knows how to play the studio and stockholders. he right now made all the calculations how much money he will need before filming,for filming and for post production of the first sequel.than it will increate .

i think Camerons first mission is to get to as much detailed on set real time pre visualization as possible . he wants shadows,he wants a more detaild 3d world where the actors are walking. and he wants a detailed represantation of the moation captured 3d face from the na'vi. in the first movie they only saw low poly bodies.

if durring post production of the third movie a new technology is realesed they will re-create all the na'vi models. so i dont belive for a second that they will reuse assets.

 

[Teelie]

I can't think of a single Cameron movie (excepting Piranha 2 which wasn't even his) that was a flop let alone a bomb so I can see him asking and getting more money (though even a less successful director probably could hit up for more).

 

[:eek:]

I can't think of a single Cameron movie (excepting Piranha 2 which wasn't even his) that was a flop let alone a bomb so I can see him asking and getting more money (though even a less successful director probably could hit up for more).

While perhaps not a flop, The Abyss didn't exactly set the box office on fire when it was released. It made only around $90 million worldwide and it had a $70 million budget, which meant it was a lot more expensive than, say, Batman and Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade

 

[dark_b]

i think Cameron said that Abyss was a bomb at that time.

 

[The Shape]

It'll increase.
It happened with Terminator Judgement Day
It happend with Titanic
It happend with Avatar.

The budget will increase. I don't think it'll be 400 million PER movie , but overal i wouldn't be surprised if the total cost for all three movies exceeds 500 million.

And who cares if it does?

 

[matrix_ghost]

And who cares if it does?

I don't. Perhaps the people funding these movies will care but i don't.
I like discussing about movies and my post was merely an observation on his movies budgets increasing.